thusness
suchness
Tathātā

It is precisely the emerging "thusness" of the thing that provokes wonder'.

There, ladies, you have the whyness of the thusness.

Even abstraction can have that effect, giving a stable sense of "thusness," and so denying for a second that things might be otherwise.

It is the quality of being fully present in the experiencing, so that everything is there in its thusness and individuality.

Oh, this thusness!

Suchness or Thusness.

Thus tathatā (thusness, ultimate reality) was translated by the Taoist term 'original non-being' (pen-wu, pure being).

The pure Buddha-mind is thus able to see things "as they truly are", as absolute and non-dual "thusness" (Tathatā).

This reality is also referred to as "thusness" or "suchness" (tathatā), indicating simply that it (reality) is what it is.

The Ratnagotravibhāga sees the Buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) as "suchness" or "thusness" - the abiding reality of all things - in a state of tarnished concealment within the being.

The wonder felt at the "thusness" of everything might have its holy origin in the processes the brain uses to monitor its own active consciousness without transmitting them to the conscious mind.

Tathata "thusness, suchness, the unconditioned, unchanging reality" is Chinese zhenru 真如 "true resemblance" and Japanese shinnyo (see Shinnyo En).

Peter Harvey (1990): "It is a blissful realization where a person's inner nature, the originally pure mind, is directly known as an illuminating emptiness, a thusness which is dynamic and immanent in the world."

The spiritual will to do good for life can be just simple suchness.

The fact had been manifested Suchness; this was only an emblem.

The car had moved on; time was uncovering another manifestation of the eternal Suchness.

The following definitions are given by and describe what each suchness means in more detail:

They are mutually in a perpetual state of "suchness". '

You know there's no Buddhist monk there; it's just Suchness.

And more often there will be days when there is nothing to say at all - for which the suchness of things is truly grateful.

Instead it embodied what he called "suchness," a Buddhist term connoting the spirit and essence of something concrete.

It would be interesting, in this context, to make a study of the works of art available to the great knowers of Suchness.

Amida Tathagata comes forth from suchness and manifests various bodies...

To coalesce one's personal consciousness with the indwelling essence of Suchness is Nirvana.

Chán faced the challenge of expressing its teachings of "suchness" without getting stuck into words or concepts.

According to Chinul, Zen points not to mere emptiness, but to suchness or the dharmadhatu.

Suchness is oneness.

Suchness or Thusness.

Dharma-nature is suchness.

These sixth-level bodhisattvas abide in contemplation of suchness, with minds that are undisturbed by false ideas.

Just This Is It: Dongshan and the Practice of Suchness.

For him all things are Suchness, and he sees but the Suchness of things.

He called it emptiness or dharmadatu or suchness, thatness, voidness, nothingness, there are many names.

In particular I wish to explore the relationship between the experience of suchness and the conceptual constructs I use to structure/organize that experience.

Another way to explain a haecceity is to distinguish between suchness and thisness, where thisness has a more demonstrative character.

The one is the soul as suchness, the other is the soul as birth-and-death (Satnsara).

It is similar to prajna, to realizing the Buddha-nature, realizing sunyata and realizing suchness.

Similarly, offering one's internal emotional and mental experiences and experience of suchness are non-physical forms of torma offerings.

Tathātā as a central concept of Buddhism expresses appreciation of the ten suchnesses in any given moment.

Tathātā in the East Asian Mahayana tradition is seen as representing the base reality and can be used to terminate the use of words.

The second chapter of the Lotus Sutra explains in detail the concept of Tathātā, or "Suchness".